next friend
noun
Closest friend or relative; (later, Law ) a person acting for an infant, for someone lacking the mental capability to act for themselves, or for a married woman.
Origin
Old English; earliest use found in King Alfred (c848–899), king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons.
- prep
- prep.
- pre-pack
- pre-package
- pre-packer
- prepaid
- pre-Palaeolithic
- prepalatal
- prepalatine
- pre-Paleolithic
- preparable
- preparate
- preparation
- preparation day
- preparationism
- preparationist
- preparation sermon
- preparative
- preparatively
- preparative meeting
- preparator
- mechoacanna
- mecholyl
- mecillinam
- Meckel